Emmeline Pankhurst, her eldest daughter Christabel and some local socialist women founded, in 1903, the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU). Their goal was to campaign for the parliamentary vote ...

Singer and actress Beverly Knight will star as suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst in highly-anticipated musical Sylvia at The Old Vic theatre. Following its first appearance as a work-in-progress ...

Set to return to the stage in autumn 2026 for a limited UK tour, followed by a short residency at the Royal Albert Hall, the production celebrates the life and activism of Sylvia Pankhurst, the ...

On International Women’s Day, it’s not uncommon to see celebrations of the groundbreaking activism of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst, but a new musical gaining popularity in London puts a lesser known ...

Are you registered to vote? How many times in your life do you think you have voted? It's now such an normal part of people's lives in the UK, really. However, y'all it has only been 100 years since ...

In the years leading up to World War I, Henry and Agnes Harben frequently turned their grand country estate, Newland Park, into a tucked-away sanctuary for Emmeline Pankhurst and her fellow ...

The great-granddaughter of a Suffragette has likened Just Stop Oil to the women's rights moments - and suggested they too could end up in the history books. Helen Pankhurst, whose great-grandmother ...

The U.K. will soon have a trio of new statues in its streets, each celebrating inspiring female figures throughout British history. The monuments will adorn cities across England, with Manchester set ...

A statue of suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst has been unveiled at St Peter's Square in front of thousands of people. It is the first statue of a woman in Manchester since Queen Victoria was unveiled in ...